Genealogy resources

nincompoop_notThreads: 4 Posts: 229 Joined: Nov 3, 09 ♀	Jun 2, 10, 20:48 #91
true, and one more thing worth adding - the digital library is a project undertaken across Poland so if put Biblioteka Cyfrowa in google/whatever search engine , you'll come across digital libraries from other parts of Poland. Couldnt find one directory for all of them.

TheOtherThreads: 4 Posts: 1,438 Joined: Jul 13, 09 ♂	Edited by: TheOther Jun 2, 10, 21:29 #92
The main page seems to be this one: http://www.polona.pl/dlibra Overview: http://dlibra.psnc.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Ite mid=27&lang=en

basimaraThreads: 1 Posts: 20 Joined: May 29, 09 ♀	Jun 4, 10, 02:41 #93
My grandparents came from stara wies, brzozow, rzeszow. How do I find parishes that they may have been baptized and/or married in?

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Edited by: zetigrek Jun 8, 10, 18:58 #94

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Geografical localisation of polish last names - a link.

I see here lots of posts inquiring if surname "xxx" is polish name etc. I think that in such cases and many others really helpful can be this map:
http://www.moikrewni.pl/mapa/kompletny/kowalski.html

you type your surname and it shows you how many ppl in Poland have the same surname and what powiat they live in.

DziedzicThreads: 4 Posts: 38 Joined: Jan 30, 08 ♂	Jul 22, 10, 07:11 #95
Some very useful information here. Those links are helpful.

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Aug 13, 10, 16:29 #96

A lot of people have recommended Cyndi's List, but this has not been very useful to me. It seems to just have links to random sparse facts.

I have traced my Polish family back to the 1700s and have a lot of useful info on how to do it. The best resource was the local Family History Center run by the Mormons. You must find the villages or towns where your family came from first, and then you might have to search around villages near there. Google Maps can help you find nearby towns.

The birth, marriage and death registers available through the Mormon Family History centers are very difficult to read in some cases. They are available on microfilm. For my family, which was Catholic, they are mostly in Latin. There is some Polish every once in a while. Mostly I have looked at church records, which were basically the same as civil records in the 19th century. Of course, back then, Poland was administratively part of Austria, Russia, Germany, Prussia, etc.

A couple of really, really good books are "Polish Roots" by Rosemary A. Chorzempa, and "A Translation Guide to 19th-Century Polish-Language Civil-Registration Documents", by Judith A. Frazin. The first one is readily available, probably on Amazon (or through Ancestry.com), and the second one is only easily available through the Polish Genealogical Society of America (at pgsa.org).

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Aug 25, 10, 07:08 #97

stumaniac:

A lot of people have recommended Cyndi's List,

I have not found it useful either. the mormons do have a very large collection going
and they now have a pilot site which is even more helpful then previously.

for anyone interested you will go to
www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp

then see prototype for searching millions of records

or just use the link below..

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start

I used them and found quite a few more records then I had.. better resource then before.

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Edited by: TheOther Aug 25, 10, 20:04 #98

Patrycja19:

the mormons do have a very large collection going
and they now have a pilot site which is even more helpful then previously.

Be careful. Many datasets contain typos and/or false information because the person entering the data couldn't read the old script on the original documents/ microfilms completely. Whenever you deal with genealogical data from the LDS, make sure that you personally double-check the details. Otherwise you will end up researching in the wrong direction.

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Aug 25, 10, 20:25 #99

TheOther:

Many datasets contain typos and/or false information because the person entering the data couldn't read the old script on the original documents/ microfilms completely.

that is the case with any genealogy service. in many cases they copy down what they see. the original document may also have the incorrect spelling. on my own birth cert it has a misspelling for my d.o.b and appears to say 30th rather than 13th.

however, it is certainly true that one should double check.

TheOtherThreads: 4 Posts: 1,438 Joined: Jul 13, 09 ♂	Edited by: TheOther Aug 25, 10, 21:16 #100
Wroclaw: that is the case with any genealogy service Very true. I would never trust information coming from a database without seeing the original source anyway.

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Aug 26, 10, 18:51 #101

TheOther:

I would never trust information coming from a database without seeing the original source anyway

maybe with common surnames, but I have not experienced any problems and have
actually matched both with documentation I currently have and what was online.

if you go on a wild quest finding every surname that matches of course your going to
head in a wrong direction.. the pilot is just a upgrade to what they already had..
and its linked to ellis island as well.. mis-spellings are common problem like wroclaw
has mentioned.. that will and can take you in a wrong direction.

but ellis island wont let us man-handle the manifest ourselfs, LDS-mormons did microfilm
all of what is online and you can go view the source and any center , which are located
in the states and europe.

WroclawThreads: 74 Posts: 7,272 Joined: Apr 1, 06 ♂ [Moderator]	Aug 26, 10, 22:51 #102
after my above post i checked the LDS site. in some cases alternative spellings are offered. LDS is reported to have added 200 million records recently.

TheOtherThreads: 4 Posts: 1,438 Joined: Jul 13, 09 ♂	Edited by: TheOther Aug 26, 10, 23:16 #103
Patrycja19: LDS-mormons did microfilm all of what is online and you can go view the source and any center Correct, they microfilmed the churchbooks and other sources. That's what I meant when I said that I always check the original source.

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Sep 2, 10, 03:21 #104

TheOther:

Correct, they microfilmed the churchbooks and other sources. That's what I meant when I said that I always check the original source.

have you used the steve morse website? very helpful for me as well I found my grandmother
via mispellings on that website, without the ability to mispell the names or only type in
three letters on each search box, I would not have found alot of my much needed documents
that I know are definately part of my family ( thru parents names) age verification etc.

I know what your saying, some sites you cant view the source and do have to rely
on documentation you might already have or information you obtained via family.

anythings possible. ;)

Patrycja19Threads: 76 Posts: 3,877 Joined: Oct 31, 06 ♀	Sep 5, 10, 05:07 #105
Just FYI this weekend is free on ancestry.com for the immigration. I have found alot of good information and you are able to save to your computer or print Patty

maksymThreads: - Posts: 35 Joined: Mar 21, 07 ♂	Nov 12, 10, 06:34 #106
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Mar 7, 11, 01:04 #107

http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/polandv.html

Civil vital registration in what became Russian Poland (the Kingdom of Poland, also known as Congress Poland) began in 1808 in the Duchy of Warsaw, and the records were kept in "Napoleonic format", a paragraph-essay style. For 1808-1825, Jewish registrations (and those of other religious denominations) were recorded in the Roman Catholic civil transcripts. Beginning in 1826, separate registers were kept for each religious community (Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, Russian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, etc.) Records were recorded in the Polish language from 1808 until 1868, and were kept thereafter in the Russian language, until 1918, when Poland regained its independence.

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Apr 4, 11, 14:30 #108

My father, who is a keen genealogist pointed me to https://familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-a pi:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1867931, images of church books containing baptisms and births, marriages, burials and deaths for the parishes in the Częstochowa, Gliwice, and Lublin Roman Catholic Dioceses of Poland. Births end in 1910 and marriages in 1935.

* Katowice
* Kielce
* Lublin
* Opole
* Łódź

And also to https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-sear ch-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1407440, images of church books containing baptisms and births, marriages, burials and deaths for the parishes in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Radom.

I have no idea whether it is of any help, but there you go.

patdrentenThreads: 2 Posts: 1 Joined: Apr 19, 11 ♀	Apr 19, 11, 09:45 #109
Looks good if you know Polish, but I don't. Help!

WroclawThreads: 74 Posts: 7,272 Joined: Apr 1, 06 ♂ [Moderator]	Edited by: Wroclaw May 4, 11, 17:20 #110
this may be of use to some folk. u can do a name search. http://archives.jdc.org/sharedlegacy/ "Our database currently includes 500,000 names found in our historic documents and client lists, with more being added regularly."

J GardThreads: - Posts: 4 Joined: May 2, 11 ♂	May 5, 11, 02:19 #111
Thanks for the Useful posts

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Jul 8, 11, 11:33 #112

stumaniac:

A lot of people have recommended Cyndi's List, but this has not been very useful to me. It seems to just have links to random sparse facts.

I have traced my Polish family back to the 1700s and have a lot of useful info on how to do it. The best resource was the local Family History Center run by the Mormons. You must find the villages or towns where your family came from first, and then you might have to search around villages near there. Google Maps can help you find nearby towns.

The birth, marriage and death registers available through the Mormon Family History centers are very difficult to read in some cases. They are available on microfilm. For my family, which was Catholic, they are mostly in Latin. There is some Polish every once in a while. Mostly I have looked at church records, which were basically the same as civil records in the 19th century. Of course, back then, Poland was administratively part of Austria, Russia, Germany, Prussia, etc.

A couple of really, really good books are "Polish Roots" by Rosemary A. Chorzempa, and "A Translation Guide to 19th-Century Polish-Language Civil-Registration Documents", by Judith A. Frazin. The first one is readily available, probably on Amazon (or through Ancestry.com), and the second one is only easily available through the Polish Genealogical Society of America (at pgsa.org).

TRUE, I have even payed for the services in Cyndi's List but we found nothing in concrete.

I agree with your comments, for years we tried to look for any family in Poland but the lack of the language is always a wall. Reading in the linkedin genealogist forum I found the contact of a consultancy company that for 10 euros found the original birth certificate of my grandfather, and thanks to this information we found the whole family! I personally was calling to the local church with the help of a local polish guy and spent money in Ancestry com but no results, only these guys were able to read the realstate documents, find names and find the birth certificates.

This summer will be the second visit and we will start with a heritage process. You guys may ask them for advice, their website is: castaneda com pl, there you can find their contact. I think all possibilities should be explored.

maksymThreads: - Posts: 35 Joined: Mar 21, 07 ♂	Sep 2, 11, 01:50 #113
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